Saturday, March 26, 2005

My sister was nice enough to stop by and visit after work the other day...ok, she wanted to see the girls, but you know, whatever draws them in...The girls, of course, wanted my sister to either read a book to them or watch cartoons with them. They were watching one of those Disney collection DVDs and I was starting to notice something - You just cannot watch cartoons with my sister. She starts to bring reality into what happens in a cartoon. "Why is that chicken so much bigger than Donald Duck?" "How can he see around the corner like that?" "What kind of animal is Goofy suppose to be?" (ok, that last one was from Stand By Me... How did Jerry O'Connell go from being the fat kid to dating models?? He needs to write a diet book and cash in..)

I don't remember her doing this when we were kids (Of course, Smurfs probably obeyed every law of physics anyway). Wonder how she would handle watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force? "Why is that french fry talking?"

Friday, March 18, 2005

A friend told me the other day that Hannah reminds him of Dakota Fanning. I don't see it. Hannah is too much of a crybaby to compare to the Dakota Fanning's eerily mature persona I see in her movies. Maybe he was thinking of the wrong kid...Sara picked me some toilet paper and deodorant the other day. I think I will have her drive me to work next....

Thursday, March 17, 2005

I promised myself I wouldn't watch any of that congressional hearing today (good thing I was able to busy myself listening to the NCAA tourney all day) but I saw some highlights on the news and my favorite moment will never be heard on any soundbite. When the congressman asked Mark McGwire whether he wanted to comment on whether he used steroids, he had this dumbstruck expression on the his face and shook his head like a five year old with his hand in the cookie jar. Hillarious!

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Call it a public service announcement. Out of all my friends, I am pretty much the only one with kids. Sometimes, I think I am helping them out by giving them a preview of what it will be like for them (if anyone wants to try to change diapers, let me know). Having kids means that you will run into things that would probably never exist in your otherwise well defined, organized life. Kids say strange things (I think I made that point in an earlier post), stick strange things up their nose, and play...strangely. I was putting the kids to bed one night and I found the above sitting on Hannah's bed...I don't even want to know how Big Bird will explain this to his therapist...

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Sara has been in an "anger" stage lately. At first, we thought it might have been related to an ear infection that she had (with a subsequent comeback for a while). It appears now though that it just might be all part of being the proverbial 'two.' We can take her clothes and diaper off when she needs to be changed, but you can forget about getting anything back on. Britt can convince her better than I can, but as far as I'm concern, Sara will be wearing a lot of sweats for a while. Even then it's a 10 minute process to get her arm in the sleeves. Kids are surprisingly strong and inflexible when they have the right motivation. Here's hoping that she will be mature for her age and start practicing to be three in a few days....

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

I can't wait for baseball season. Both because, well, I love baseball, and I am so dang tired of all this steroid talk. I think that people like Jose Canseco is just taking advantage of the time of year. People are so ready for baseball to return that the talk is usually of every little injury and transactions that occurred during the last 4 months. Canseco just gave them something new to talk about. Let's just play ball and worry about executing that squeeze bunt and not who was with who doing what in bathroom stalls...

- First of all, Jose Canseco is an idiot.- Having said that, Canseco is also everything that everyone is saying about him. Greedy, Self-absorbed, delusional, Angry, and even honest. He can certainly be a jerk and a snitch while telling the truth. I haven't read the book, nor do I plan to. I hope he makes enough money off of all of this, because he is certainly playing his last ace. I hope that money can buy him some friends too....- So the government is getting involved and will get to the truth for the people....why? What does this have to do with my congressman working for me? Aren't we trying to wrap up a war? Isn't Social Security in trouble? ... When it comes down to it, sports is entertainment. I don't think there is a congressional committee on a fact finding mission to seek out all the fake boobs in Hollywood (not officially anyway). I can understand fans wondering about the hallow records books being tainted (I don't think any asterisks are needed, btw), but what is this suppose to accomplished?- The truth is, the government does not have any evidence of wrong doing, unless you count Mr. Canseco's book. MLB did not start testing until 2003 (do they still have those samples?). Simply asking some players if they used steroids isn't going to shed any new light on the subject. I think everyone has accepted that players used steroids. So they want to know exactly which players were using and who wasn't? Good luck. Let's try and be more strict, learn a lesson from this, and move on. I'd rather watch Schilling drill A-Rod, and the government can go after the track and field folks. That's where the chemistry labs excel...

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

I say a lot about Scrubs around here so I'll be brief. The last episode was a good example of why the show is great. They take a lot of risk and do a lot of different things that you don't see anywhere else. The fast motion is a little gimmicky, but it's still unique (that episode where they had the laugh track was good too)...and I have a confession to make while I am at it - I don't really like Heather Graham. I don't really have a problem with her so much. I just don't think she is very attractive. Her character is funny though, so it was nice to see her back...